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Rated: E · Poetry · Psychology · #1515596

Just a poem about the value placed on names.

By what word shall you call me?
Is there a word to signify?
Will I answer its call swiftly?
Will its sound defy
all my will;
the duty names fulfill?
If there be such a word
Then 'twas first announced
As the song of a mocking bird
In the first things you pronounced.
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